It's hard.. When your heart is somewhere else..

I left my heart in Haiti. When I went last summer. And I definitely wouldn't mind going back to Nicaragua.
I know that I have a great life here and I have a lot of things and people going for me. I have a pretty strong relationship with my Savior, a great family, make good grades, play multiple different sports, good youth group, and awesome friends.
But there's just something missing. Now, I don't go throughout the day in a slum or thinking about it constantly. But that missing thing continually crosses my mind. You know how we go to camps and get totally on fire for God and our falling world and we stay that way for like a week or two after? I'm guilty of that. And then it just ends and we go back to living the way we did before. No second thought really.
Well, this time it's different. It's been 6 months since Haiti and I'm still on fire. My relationships are stronger, I have a different view on life, and God has my complete life in His hands. But I left my heart there.
I recently went to Nicaragua too. And I would definitely head back there. Just anywhere where there's no schedule and I can get out of my comfort zone. Sure, I was babied on this trip (hotel, running water, good food, safe) but still. Just the fact that I'm not HERE, in America, was good enough for me. I don't know what my life has in store. As long as its God's will, im good.
I find it harder and harder to focus and gt through school. Especially after my second mission trip. I don't want to be here. I want to be in a 3rd world country. But until God moves me.. This is where I reside.
"Greater things have yet to come, greater things are still to be done!"
Thanks:)

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